Stardate: Unknown. With the war between Klingons and Federation intensifying, Sisko must make a plan to expose Gowron as a changeling. Odo is still having trouble with becoming a solid.
45min
September 30, 1996
2. The Ship
Stardate: 50049.3. The crew find a crashed Jem’Hadar ship and work to repair it and capture it for the Federation, but are confronted by a Dominion force determined to recover the ship’s cargo.
45min
October 7, 1996
3. Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places
Stardate: Unknown. While Worf helps Quark to pursue his former wife Grilka, O'Brien and Kira grow uncomfortably close to each other.
45min
October 14, 1996
4. Nor the Battle to the Strong
Stardate: Unknown. Jake, reporting from the front lines, sees what war truly is.
45min
October 21, 1996
5. The Assignment
Stardate: Unknown. An alien entity has possessed Keiko's body and is holding it hostage until O'Brien completes an assignment for it.
45min
October 28, 1996
6. Trials and Tribble-ations
Stardate: 4523.7. In this celebration of the 30th anniversary of The Original Series, the disgraced Klingon spy Darvin travels back in time to undo his century-old defeat by James Kirk. The DS9 crew must track him down and stop him, while blending in with the crew of the original Enterprise NCC-1701.
45min
November 4, 1996
7. Let He Who Is Without Sin...
Stardate: Unknown. While vacationing on Risa, Worf and Dax meet a group of fundamentalist protesters who claim that the Federation has gone soft.
45min
November 11, 1996
8. Things Past
Stardate: Unknown. Sisko, Dax, Odo and Garak find themselves in the past when the Cardassians controlled the station, and a crime that Odo investigated may be the key.
45min
November 18, 1996
9. The Ascent
Stardate: Unknown. When Odo and Quark crash land, they must put aside their differences to climb a mountain to signal for help. Jake and Nog try to be roommates, but their different styles clash.
45min
November 25, 1996
10. Rapture
Stardate: Unknown. After a brain injury, Sisko begins experiencing powerful visions through time. He dives fully into the role of the Emissary, while becoming obsessed with finding a legendary Bajoran ruin.
45min
December 30, 1996
11. The Darkness and the Light
Stardate: 50416.2. A mysterious assassin begins wiping out all the members of Kira's old resistance cell.
45min
January 6, 1997
12. The Begotten
Stardate: Unknown. The discovery of an infant Changeling gives Odo a chance to put right the trauma of his own upbringing, while his “father” Dr. Mora insists on a more clinical approach.
45min
January 27, 1997
13. For the Uniform
Stardate: 50485.2. When the traitorous Eddington returns, Sisko will go to any lengths to capture him.
45min
February 3, 1997
14. In Purgatory's Shadow (1)
Stardate: Unknown. A coded message from the Gamma Quadrant leads Garak to believe his mentor, Enabran Tain, is still alive. He and Worf seek him out, only to discover something much worse: a Dominion invasion fleet poised to attack the Alpha Quadrant.
45min
February 10, 1997
15. By Inferno's Light (2)
Stardate: 50564.2. The station readies for a Dominion attack. Worf and Garak meet some unexpected friends in a Dominion Prison camp.
45min
February 17, 1997
16. Doctor Bashir, I Presume?
Stardate: Unknown. Dr. Bashir is selected to be the model for the next-generation of Emergency Medical Hologram (EMH). But he balks when his parents are invited to the station to be interviewed by the EMH programmer, Dr. Zimmerman. There is a dark secret in his family that he's afraid that his parents will reveal.
45min
February 24, 1997
17. A Simple Investigation
Odo helps a woman hiding on the station from organized criminals, but quickly develops a personal interest in the case.
45min
March 31, 1997
18. Business as Usual
Stardate: Unknown. Quark must wrestle with his conscience when he becomes involved with arms merchants.
45min
April 7, 1997
19. Ties of Blood and Water
Stardate: 50712.2. When a Cardassian official that thinks of Kira as his daughter is dying, he agrees to reveal all he knows to her. But the experience dredges up Kira's memories of her own father's death.
45min
April 14, 1997
20. Ferengi Love Songs
Stardate: Unknown. Quark doesn't know whether to be panicked or overjoyed when he learns that his mother is the new lover of the Grand Nagus.
45min
April 21, 1997
21. Soldiers of the Empire
Stardate: Unknown. Dax and Worf accompany Martok on his first command since being held by the Dominion. But the ship they are given hasn't seen victory in months and the crew is near mutinous.
45min
April 28, 1997
22. Children of Time
Stardate: 50814.2. The DS9 crew discovers a colony that, due to a time travel accident, turns out to be inhabited by the crew's own descendants.
45min
May 5, 1997
23. Blaze of Glory
Stardate: Unknown. Sisko learns that the Maquis are planning a devastating attack on Cardassia, and must rely on the traitor Eddington to help him prevent it.
45min
May 12, 1997
24. Empok Nor
Stardate: Unknown. While salvaging components from DS9's sister station, the crew run afoul of a "surprise" left behind by the Cardassians.
45min
May 19, 1997
25. In the Cards
Stardate: 50929.4. Jake has his heart set on a vintage Willie Mays baseball card as a present to cheer up his father, whose spirits are flagging from the ongoing conflict.
45min
June 9, 1997
26. Call to Arms
Stardate: 50975.2. Sisko decides to mine the wormhole to prevent further Dominion ships crossing into the Alpha Quadrant. This provokes an attack by the Dominion and the Cardassians, and a desperate last stand on Deep Space Nine.